Winston Wolfe
10-16-04, 07:49 PM
I was bumping around at the SEMAShow.org website for the drivers appearances while I am going to be there, and I found this interesting tidbit listed on the bios for Mario and his son, "The Whiner", "The Lesser" MAndretti, if you will, who are going to be appearing at the same booth, albeit at different times during Nov 3rd....
Found it interesting.
MA "Pops" : (Below is a quote)
"Only Driver to Win the Daytona 500, Indianapolis 500 and Formula 1 World Championship. Four Time Champ Car National Champion"
(Appearance at)
Praxis Advanced Suspensions/Bridgestone Americas (Booth # 23067)
Then, there is MA "The Lesser" MA - also a quote from the site.
"Owner of Andretti Green Racing, Finished in Top Ten of Cart Championship 17 of 18 Years on the Circuit, Won Cart Title in 1991"
(Appearance at)
Praxis Advanced Suspensions/Bridgestone Americas (Booth # 23067)
The forgot to put "Whiner Extroidinaire", "Yen sucking traitor", and "Backstabbing has-been". All of his accomplishments are listed, are from CART - the series who "made" him.... They also forgot "Complete Failure in last American attempt at F1, with legitimate team"
I recall seeing him lat SEMA ast year, sitting at a table, doing his time, signing calendars near the booth where Kimi Raikkonen was providing the audience with a "brilliant" oratory on the finer points of driving the McLaren Mercedes, and actually appearing animated in some instances.... and Mikey just couldn't even crack a smile when people were shoving things under his pen for a signature.... he barely made eye contact with people. Since I am sure that he was not there on his own valition, and was probably handsomely compensated by someone, it just furthered my already negative opinion of him.... and to see him do it live, rather that just in front of a camera, was perfect proof.... :(
Mikey should take a few lessons from King Richard, who sat at the Petty Driving Experience Booth at the SEMA show for at least 45 minutes, smiled, chatted with everyone, and had to listed to just about every person in line tell him how great he is, what a pleasure it was to meet him, and recall certain moments in various races over the years that meant so much to them.... Richard is a class act, and his autographed 1970 Superbird sits proudly on my shelf in my home office, from last years show.... :)
FMA - the lesser.
Found it interesting.
MA "Pops" : (Below is a quote)
"Only Driver to Win the Daytona 500, Indianapolis 500 and Formula 1 World Championship. Four Time Champ Car National Champion"
(Appearance at)
Praxis Advanced Suspensions/Bridgestone Americas (Booth # 23067)
Then, there is MA "The Lesser" MA - also a quote from the site.
"Owner of Andretti Green Racing, Finished in Top Ten of Cart Championship 17 of 18 Years on the Circuit, Won Cart Title in 1991"
(Appearance at)
Praxis Advanced Suspensions/Bridgestone Americas (Booth # 23067)
The forgot to put "Whiner Extroidinaire", "Yen sucking traitor", and "Backstabbing has-been". All of his accomplishments are listed, are from CART - the series who "made" him.... They also forgot "Complete Failure in last American attempt at F1, with legitimate team"
I recall seeing him lat SEMA ast year, sitting at a table, doing his time, signing calendars near the booth where Kimi Raikkonen was providing the audience with a "brilliant" oratory on the finer points of driving the McLaren Mercedes, and actually appearing animated in some instances.... and Mikey just couldn't even crack a smile when people were shoving things under his pen for a signature.... he barely made eye contact with people. Since I am sure that he was not there on his own valition, and was probably handsomely compensated by someone, it just furthered my already negative opinion of him.... and to see him do it live, rather that just in front of a camera, was perfect proof.... :(
Mikey should take a few lessons from King Richard, who sat at the Petty Driving Experience Booth at the SEMA show for at least 45 minutes, smiled, chatted with everyone, and had to listed to just about every person in line tell him how great he is, what a pleasure it was to meet him, and recall certain moments in various races over the years that meant so much to them.... Richard is a class act, and his autographed 1970 Superbird sits proudly on my shelf in my home office, from last years show.... :)
FMA - the lesser.